Cruyff in Valencia
Johan Cruyff is remembered mainly as a player for Ajax and Holland, and as a player and manager of Barcelona Football Club. However, he was also briefly a player…
Ma Khin of Restaurant
Ma Khin is my kind of restaurant, to paraphrase Ol Blue Eyes; and as its founder, British/Burmese chef Stephen Anderson claims, it is ‘going slowly, coming nicely’. Ma Khin is…
Running for Nepal….in the Calderona
As Valencia is fast becoming ‘the’ running city, the surrounding countryside is also staking its claim to healthy living. On 6th March 2016 the closest mountain range to the city…
Neville Electrifies Valencia
Unfortunately we are not talking about football manager Gary Neville, but about the Julius G Neville company, whose products, manufactured in Liverpool, were used all over Spain when the country…
Fallas is Dead; Long Live Fallas!
The last of the gunpowder has exploded; although there always seems to be at least one kid in every neighbourhood who has some lethal explosives left over. The tears have…
7 Julio: A Barrel of Laughs
The restaurant isn’t in the nicest of locations, in an industrial estate on the southbound road leaving Valencia; but once inside, angels soar to the ceiling, wooden pillars soar down…
El Convent: An Aria and a Prayer
There are not many places where you can climb down a mountain, enter a cloister and then find yourself in an excellent restaurant, surrounded by mountains and listening to opera.…
Valencia’s Iron(Wo)Man
Maria José Martínez Maroto is not an ordinary woman, nor an ordinary athlete; she was the only woman representing Spain in the Half Ironman competition in Puerto Rico on March…
Ciao Valencia: Vicios Italianos
They say you shouldn’t mix business with pleasure, and yet five international friends have found both in Valencia, via London and Orlando. Vicios Italianos is the name of their company,…
Vicente Todolí: Oil and Painting
When he resigned in 2010, The Guardian newspaper said of him: “His curiosity, wit, rigour and passion make him a model for future directors of Tate Modern,” such was the…
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